Inés Sybille Vooduness is a dancer, cultural researcher, and teacher. Born in Barcelona to a Catalan mother and a Haitian father, she currently resides in Lisbon. Inés Sybille creates fictional encounters with Haitian Vodou deities through her choreographic field: Kuduro from Angola, Coupé Décalé from Côte d’Ivoire, and Dancehall from Jamaica. She shapes this philosophical material and explores the possibility of producing an existential awareness by reterritorializing these codes. In 2023, Inés was selected as an artist-in-residence at La Casa Encendida with her performance Santa de sustrato autónomo. 

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Los Mina). Malvin Montero began his dance career in 2003 at the Alina Abreu Dance Conservatory. He graduated from the National School of Dance of Fine Arts (Endanza) and Pro Danza (Havana). He holds a degree in choreography and dance performance from Rey Juan Carlos University (ISDAl) in Madrid, Spain. As a creator, dancer, and director, he has an extensive professional trajectory encompassing classical academic dance, contemporary dance, improvisation, and free improvisation, trained under composer Chefa Alonso. A key focus of his creative work is exploring diasporic corporeality and its imaginaries. He directs the platform Zebra Prieta and was a finalist and award-winner at the 35th Madrid Choreographic Contest in 2021 with his piece El mal comío no piensa. In his poetic work, Dominican choreographer and director Malvin Montero Puerca de Goma focuses on the movements, speech, and everyday practices of Caribbean peoples, specifically the Caribbean diaspora living in the Iberian Peninsula.

Inés Sybille Vooduness